Kansas Rocks Creepy Crawl

[gw33gp]

It is about an hour drive from Garnett. That is an easy round trip, but it sounds like our arrival and departure times are going to be too close to make the trip worthwhile. I am usually back there that time of year every year. I might try it again sometime when my schedule is not so tight.

If my family has no plans for Sunday, I may still come down to run the trails. That is not the kind of thing I normally do off-road, but it could be fun.

Enjoy

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Last time we did have a lot of fun playing around in the park.

I hope to get there by 5 and I doubt we will get out of there much earlier than noon, last time we caught lunch in KC IIRC.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Deadline is Thursday if you want to register for the creepy crawl @Uncle Gump and anyone else who may be on the fence.

Last day to register...

 

[Curious Hound]

I'm not going to make it.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Broke the oldest out of school a couple hours early and hit Missouri:



The ratchet strapped road cover really completes the look...



Had some fun with books on the road



Kansas!



Yeah, we saw this later...



I tried to get Amanda to shift formation to follow the heep so we would have a Land Cruiser, Range Rover, Wangler and a Bronco all in a row but she wouldn't...



Just what every V8 swapped Ranger pilot wants to see while pulling a trailer... stop and go traffic for miles. Oddly it actually ran cooler idling along than it did running 65.



Amanda didn't know if I saw the Jeep so she took a picture of it for me.





Got set up right before dark, lots of lightning around on the horizon but clear skys... it was weird.



At at 6 a good storm rolled in, very dramatic thunder.



After it blew threw the morning started out pretty nice.



Handy dandy oatmeal cooker didn't miss a beat.



Can kinda see the playground behind our site and the shower house beyond that. Very nice campground for the most part.



They have a RC rock garden in the campground which Oliver had fun with. My newly installed wheelspacers on my RC backed out and it yeeted a drive pin. I didn't have any tools to work on it with so it hardly got ran.





By that morning they had totally changed the forecast and were talking about constant rain from late afternoon into the evening so I popped up the canopy to discover I had left the stakes in our normal camping tote that has our main ground tent in it... so we ran to Fort Scott to grab stakes for that. While there they had a really heavy thunderstorm roll thru. We were starting to have doubts about just how much fun offroading was going to be.

So we got back to camp, got the canopy staked down and thought to give it a try. It... wasn't much fun. Just grease on rock, we were sliding everywhere.

We did get a little muddy.



Yes even up into the wheel well like this: